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- On a recent Sunday afternoon, my son and I were in Penn Station to catch a MARC train to D.C. Every bench in the waiting room was full. We backed out and looked for a place to sit on the pair of long benches perpendicular to the ones in the waiting room, where I spotted a couple of spaces. But on one space was a soda can belonging to a young black man in the adjacent space. As I stood in front of the bench, I remembered two recent headlines in The Sun. One was about "gang killers" of a
- "Seven football players arrested on sex-related charges" — the headline in the New York Times made me think that here's another case of football players behaving badly toward women. But the story went in another direction.
- In places like Ferguson, Mo., hostility toward the police would be far less likely if the parent St. Louis County had fewer police departments — or even better, only one.
- The increasing emphasis on football at the Big 5 schools can have benefits for excluded colleges and universities. Without the constant pressure to field top teams, they can become more faithful to their true missions by de-emphasizing the importance of winning football games.
- A very unsettling shadow is settling over the whole American educational endeavor. It's largely a consequence of the idea that every child should graduate from high school, be admitted to college and then graduate from college. In order to make that happen, all along the way expectations would have to be lowered. That, unfortunately, involves giving in to the bigotry of low expectations.
- The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board was obviously correct. But the effects have been far more complex than simply providing equal access. One
- University of New Haven sophomore tight end Mike Flacco is hoping to join his older brother, Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, in the NFL.
- 'Special admissions' bring top athletes to college campuses like Maryland but give schools expensive academic challenges, interviews and documents show
- The stadium lights are on at all hours, and the football team is practicing at 5 a.m. When did Towson become a football factory?
- College football scandals will persist until players are given salaries and academics are made optional